Title: Database apps in WordPress/MySQL/PHP
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Database apps in WordPress/MySQL/PHP

 *  [markwill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markwill/)
 * (@markwill)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-apps-in-wordpress/)
 * I have a reasonably short term need to move from pretty old ASP.Net pages to 
   WordPress. Put another way, I’m moving them from ASP.Net/IIS/SQL Server/C# to
   WordPress/Apache/MySQL/PHP.
 * I am comfortable with the whole ASP.Net postback and codeebehind thing and that’s
   how these pages are written. I have less experience with database development
   under WordPress and I am hoping for some pointers.
 * The app itself is reasonably straightforward and I need the following done:
    - List records from a database table on a web page. The number is quite small(
      72 records) and each record just goes in an LI element. So, I need to populate
      that list when the page is called up.
    - A dropdown visible on the page that sorts the result set. This is currently
      done on the ASP.Net page with an ASPNet postback. The server-side code just
      looks at a Sort dropdown and adjusts a SQL query accordingly to refresh the
      list. Note that the roundtrip to the server is perfectly acceptable here
 * I’m hoping someone could point me in the right direction with the “framework”
   I need in place here to populate the page when it’s loading and also to respond
   to the postback when the Sort dropdown is selected.
 * By the way, this is a simple page but, down the road, I will have more complex
   scenario to expose. I am perfectly OK purchasing a WordPress plugin if that would
   significantly ease my path.
 * Any pointers most appreciated.
 * Thanks.
 * Mark

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 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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